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Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Bernie's base is a bunch of middle aged white men and young college students who haven't been around long enough to actually have experience getting stuff done. They're high maintenance and self-congratulatory, but they're not the real change drivers.
Hillary's base is minorities, women, and all the folks who have actually driven progress over the years.
Whatever you think of the candidates, I like Hillary's core vote of women and minorities a lot more than Bernie's, and candidate do tend to respond to their base.
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That's a nice little bit of snark, but it in no way addresses the point I was making, which is that Hilary's big appeal is that she won't try to change things too drastically, so the sea change the author Thurgreed quoted as predicting is not likely to come.
